Tag: YNaija Frontpage

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November 29, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: For love or country (YNaija FrontPage)

Many skilled Nigerians are torn between their determination to remain in the country and the lure of endless possibilities around ...

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November 28, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: Activism 3.0: Activism, Reactivism and the necessary new order (YNaija FrontPage)

Activism would even be okay where activists are actually able to offer practical options and alternatives but there is more ...

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November 27, 2012

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Cutting the fat in our politics (YNaija FrontPage)

…we don’t have to settle for the mediocre compromise that most of Nigeria’s mainstream political parties represent. Last week, we ...

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November 26, 2012

Tolu Ogunlesi: Life ain’t some James Bond sh-t (YNaija FrontPage)

We licked our wounds, swapped stories, stewed in our numbness, picked spent bullet shells as though we were harvesting grain. ...

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November 24, 2012

Temie Giwa: The Nigerian political opposition’s poison (YNaija FrontPage)

The opposition’s strategy is to steal the Sout-West and the North from PDP by presenting a northern favorite through CPC ...

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November 23, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: Now that it’s our turn to “participate” in politics (YNaija FrontPage)

Because change doesn’t happen because one set of people is replaced by the next. Change only happens because one set ...

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November 21, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: Activists and active citizens: A new order (YNaija FrontPage)

When I get referred to as an activist and I remember the stories of the real heroes of our democracy, ...

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November 18, 2012

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: The Abuja delusion/illusion (YNaija FrontPage)

I look at all these evidently important roads and wonder what really the government is doing. Then I realize that ...

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November 17, 2012

Temie Giwa: On self government (YNaija FrontPage)

America has its problems, many of them major and possibly fatal, however its democracy seems to work most of the ...

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November 16, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: The truth about Tunde Bakare (YNaija FrontPage)

Save for fire and brimstone, no one can distil in a nutshell what exactly Tunde Bakare and Buhari were going ...

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November 15, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: The city that never sleeps (YNaija FrontPage)

As Walter Miller wrote in A Canticle for Leibowitz, “to minimize suffering and maximize security were natural and proper ends ...

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November 14, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: The Nigerian opposition and the quest for Nigeria’s alternative (YNaija Frontpage)

Nothing is to say the coming together of the parties will guarantee them a win against the PDP in 2015 ...

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November 13, 2012

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: How to get our youth working (YNaija FrontPage)

First, there is quite obviously the silly mindset of a lot of young Nigerians have that certain jobs are beneath ...

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November 11, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: All I want to say is, thank you, America (YNaija Frontpage)

Whether the rest of the world hates America’s guts or not, they have to admit ­those guys know how to ...

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November 8, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: From Uncle Sam with love (YNaija FrontPage)

The way Dame Patience Jonathan was unleashed during the Presidential campaign suggested women were a clear target. I am convinced ...

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November 7, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: My landlady and our grab-your-own mentality (YNaija FrontPage)

A society moves forward if the people learn to solve problems that affect everyone and not when individuals look to ...

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November 5, 2012

Tolu Ogunlesi: The beggars, the fence and the country (YNaija Frontpage)

From another perspective it is super-depressing news. President come president go, fuel scarcity remain, corruption remain. Nigeria’s problems seem destined ...

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November 4, 2012

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: Scrap the Ministry of Information (YNaija Frontpage)

Simply put, the Minister needs to see that scarce funds are being wasted on this pointless tour of states, which ...

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November 3, 2012

Temie Giwa: Citizens awake! Watch our national spending (YNaija FrontPage)

In fact, I believe that a public budget is the most important tool that citizens can use to gauge the ...

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November 1, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: A paradise for maggots (YNaija FrontPage)

Many years ago, a young Nigerian chose to become a police officer instead of a lawyer at the NNPC. I ...

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October 26, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, you have a message (YNaija FrontPage)

In the South-West which it dominates, the ACN has ambled along with juvenile irredentism (Rauf Aregbesola, Osun) arrogant elitism (Babatunde ...

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October 20, 2012

Temie Giwa: And the floods came (YNaija Frontpage)

We are at a crossroads again. Nigeria could choose to do the right thing and engage in building those buffer ...

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October 19, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: What the world desperately needs now (YNaija FrontPage)

It kind of answers the question as to why, these days, leaders continue to chose easy fame over hard-slog decisions. ...

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October 18, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: The Verbal Kint in all of us (YNaija Frontpage)

Like most government documents, the Sure and Steady Ready Report reads like a propaganda document, like an artist blowing his ...

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October 12, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: Of Omojuwa and those like him (YNaija FrontPage)

  But, you see, unlike Omojuwa and his passionate young friends, they actually end up doing nothing. It’s all sound ...

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July 12, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: Revolution 2.0 (YNaija FrontPage)

The lessons from Egypt were immense. It is now obvious that ordinary people can deliver extraordinary results. Whenever Wael Ghonim ...

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July 11, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: Give the President a break… (YNaija FrontPage)

One would assume a lot of you are jealous of her Chris Aire blings but then I also know some of ...

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July 10, 2012

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: It’s time to take over from the cowboys (YNaija Frontpage)

            It’s amazing that I made it through the maze that I was in Lord ...

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July 9, 2012

Tolu Ogunlesi: BREAKING: Nigeria now “closer than ever” to discovery of GAWD! Particle (YNaija FrontPage)

The Nigerian Government this morning announced that it was now “very close” to discovering the elusive “GAWD! Particle.” In an ...

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July 7, 2012

Temie Giwa: Nothing will happen if we do not change the governance system (YNaija FrontPage)

 …the vast majority of the people, 98%, will be dishonest and will cheat if they can get away with it ...

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